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This book presents challenging issues and current trends for designing human fall detection and classification systems, as well as healthcare technologies, using multimodal approaches. In healthcare, falls are frequent especially among elderly people and it is considered a major health problem worldwide. Recently, fall detection and classification systems have been proposed to address this problem, and to reduce the time, a person fallen receives assistance. For a comprehensive perspective of these healthcare technologies, the book is divided into two parts. In the first part, human fall detection and classification systems are approached. A holistic view, from the design process to the implementation, is considered in the self-contained chapters presented. Moreover, these contributions mainly correspond to the challenges, methodologies adopted and results of the international competition, namely Challenge UP …